MC² Conference Presentations

Session 1 - Policy/Science Interface

Lead Paper, C Sweeney - Including agricultural mitigation in New Zealand's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory

• Decarbonisation pathways for UK agriculture, land management and forestry - D Moran
• How to compare greenhouse gases for climate stabilisation - M Manning
• Pastoral agriculture and carbon neutrality - K Lassey
• CO2-equivalence and the transition to stabilisation - I Enting

Session 2 - Emission, Processes & Measurement

Keynote Address, David Fowler - The global budgets of methane and nitrous oxide, their uncertainties and techniques to measure emissions at regional and country scales

• Impact of climate change on oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere - G Zeng
• Biochar reduces nitrous oxide emissions and nitrogen leaching from soil - B Singh
• Compaction effects of CO2 and N2O production during drying and rewetting of soil - M Beare
• Effects of moisture and temperature on NOx and N2O gas emissions from bovine urine applied to soil cores - S Khan
• Impact of 8-yr tillage, crop residue and N Fertiliser Management on crop yield, nutrient uptake, and soil quality and nitrous oxide gas emissions - S Malhi
• Influence on time and method of alfalfa stands termination on soil C and N, and greenhouse gas emissions - S Malhi

 Session 3 - Measurement

• Assessing the uncertainty of a change in methane emissions from cattle at the herd scale with various micrometeorological methods - M Bai
• Nitrous oxide emission factor from application of animal dung on different soils in New Zealand - J Luo
• Nitrous oxide emissions from wheta cropping soils in South-Eastern Australia - S Officer
• Small-scale micrometeorological method for comparison of emission from treated plots - M Harvey
• Open path Fourier Transform Spectroscopy: A novel tracer technique to measure methane from grazing animals - F Phillips
• Plume detection using a gas tracer and cavity ringdown spectrometer - G Brailsford
• The LUNG: a new approach to greenhouse gas flux measurements - T Bromley
• Simulated measurements and imaging of methane emissions at paddock scales - S Wood
• Decreasing nitrous oxide emissions from high rainfall cropping systems - J Graham
• In situ and remote sensing measurements of atmospheric CO2 in the New Zealand region - G Brailsford
• Quantifying the contribution of soil organic matter turnover to forest soil respiration, using natural abundance d13C - D Whitehead
• Quantifying biochar carbon stability in soil using natural13C-isotope approach: preliminary estimates based on two years of observation - B Singh
• The impact of conversion of pasture land to Pinus Radiata plantation on soil carbon stocks and dynamics - C Poon
• Long-term tillage, straw and N rate effects on quantity and quality of organic C and N in a gray luvisol soil - S Malhi
• Clay-carbon interactions in soil environments - G Yuan
• Quantitative understanding of movement of dissolved organic matter from some New Zealand pasture soils - A Ghani
• Development of a framework for upscaling nitrous oxide emissions from New Zealand hill country - C de Klein

Session 4

• Application of a nutrient transfer model for upscaling nitrous oxide emissions from hill country grazed pastures - S Saggar
• Modelling production efficiency as a strategy to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions on dairy farms - P Beurkes
• Potenital impact of N2O mitigation options for sugarcane production in Australia - P Thorburn
• The difficulties in reducing both N2O and CO2 emissions from Australian subtropical agricultural systems - N Huth
• Nitrogen cycling and N2O emissions in FullCAM - R Farquarson
• Scaling issues in measureing N2O emissions and its drivers: implications for reginoal modelling - A McMillan
• Estimating methane emission from paddy fields using a process-based biogeochemistry model - M Hayano
• Combining observations and models to estimate regional sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2 - S Mikaloff-Fletcher
• Farm management opportunities to mitigate GHG production - case studies - R Dynes
• Practical, cost effective methods for reducing N losses from urea fertiliser and urine patches on dairy farms - B Quin
• The role of nitrogen transformation inhibitors in mitigating nitrogen losses from pastures - J Singh
• The use of alkaline waste to produce biochars with high cation exchange capacity - M Camps Arbestain
• Methane biofilters - a cost effective and sustainable approach to managing methnae emissions from dairy farms - C Pratt
• Afforestation on erosion-prone land, implication on greenhouse gas emissions: a case study in the Manawatu catchment, New Zealand - A-G Ausseil
• Greenhouse gas emissions from Australian beef cattle feedlots - D Chen

Session 5 - Soil Carbon

Keynote Address, Rich Conant - Global perspectives on soil carbon sequestration: measurements, mechanisms and feedback.

• Propagation of the uncertainty of soil carbon measurements using mid-infrared spectroscopy into a carbon accounting model: impact on model outputs - J Baldock
• Management strategies for increasing storage of organic C and N in soil in the Northern Great plains of North America - S Malhi
• The role of eddy covariance in determining carbon fluxes in pasture soils - D Campbell
• Using 50 years of radio carbon data to quatify soil carbon dynamics in New Zealand pastures: the missing link for robust soil C models? - T Baisden

Session 6 - Modelling

Keynote Address, Changsheng Li - Uncertainties of Quantifying Soil Nitrous Oxide Emissions with Process-Based Models

• NZ-DNDC: Development history and modifications of a model for simulating greenhouse gas emissions from grazed pastures - D Giltrap
• Modelling nitrous oxide dynamics in grazed grassland systems - J Wang
• Estimating the effect of climate change on GHG emissions at experimental sites in Canada - W Smith
• Simulating soil N2O and CO2 emissions from arable organic and conventional systems using MoBiLE-DNDC - N Chirinda
• Estimation of CH4 and N2O emissions from rice fieldsunder AWD irrigation management through a DNDC model approach - N Katayanagi

Session 7 - Mitigation Approaches

• Assessing the climate change implications of shifting land use between forest and permanent pasture - M Kirchbaum
• Integrating the DNDC model into the Indicator Database for European agriculture - A Leip
• Greenhouse gas emissions from grazed pastures receiving nitrogen from clover N2 fixation or nitrogen fertiliser estimated using Life Cycle Assessment - S Ledgard
• Nitrification inhibitors: an effective mitigation technology for nitrous oxide emissions from grazed grassland - H Di
• Are N inhibitors a solution to N losses from grazed pastures? - M Zaman